Someone asked me… why sometimes when looking at on-chain data it seems to “lag” for a moment, even though the blocks have already been produced. The point is: it’s not that the chain has stopped—it's that a few intermediate layers are “catching their breath.” Most likely, the frontend you’re using reads from a subgraph/indexer. The indexer needs to keep up with new blocks, run parsing, and write to the database; when there’s a reorganization or a node hiccup, it can fall behind by a whole step. On top of that, with RPC rate limiting, once the free tier hits a peak, it gives you a 429, and the
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